Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-15

Saturday, October 10, 1887.
See telegraph news GU fourth page.
Ice formed on pools of water last night.
Hard wood is having good sale on the
streets.
new office will be built by the Edwards
eom7any next spring.
Labor Commissioner Matthews returned
from Lewiston yesterday.
TIE Methodist people design to have a
course of lectures the coming autumn and
winter.
Two Young bows who were padding about
the dam yesterday had very narrow escape
from being carried over.
The Maine CentraPs excursion to Aroos-
took will be fine one and it is predicted that
MANY will take advantage of it.
Local huntsmen say they never knew the
awamps and marshes to be so flooded with
uater at this season of the year.
Those who a week ago were afflicted
with diphtheria in Foxcroft, have nearly all
recovered No new cases are reported there.
Weather prophets say we are to have an
omen winter. The husks on Indian corn are
thin and the golden rod is yellower than US
ual.
Sheets, blankets, quilts and even overcoats
are now made to serve the flower beds as
protectors against the nightly ravages of
JACK Frost.
Three fellows were sent to Jail yesterday
by Judge Andrews. One was committed for
creating disturbance and the other two for
vagrsncy.
The pay roll of the Edwards Company is at
present 1000 per annum. When the new
mill is built the pay roll will amount to
$3.50 900 or more.
MAJOR Berry Of Gardiner has furnished a
sketch of proposed freacoing of the interior
of the new chapel at Togus, at cost not to
exceed FIVE hundred dollars.
An elderly gentleman who was coming
down Bridge hill Yesterday afternoon slipped
and fell He was considerably shaken up but
escaped with a few slight bruises.
The brick block of the Edwards company
is nearing completion. The large plate glass
windows are in on the first story, and the finish
work on the interior is being rapidly pushed.
One of the prettiest views in this city is
the one looking up the river from the east
end of the dam. At this season of the year
it is scene to gladden. the soul of an artist
or inspire the muse of a poet.
The following postoffices have been dis
continued in Maine: Forest Station, Wash
ington county, send mail to Lambert Lake
Smal's Mills, Hancock county, West Bridg-
ten, Cumberland county, mail to Bridgton.
Considerable excitement il felt in the city
over the arrest of the Barron murderers, and
the hope is quite generously expressed that
the reputation of this man may be cleared
from the opprobrium which has been cast
upon it.
Hon. Jacob Edwards was in the city yes
terday His mission was to see about locatiog
the wheel and wheel-pit of the new building
a: the east side of the dam. The expense
will be much greater than was at first sntici-
patsd
On Wednesday last, Thomas Cahill Malichi
Watson, Geo. w. Bisbee, Michael Kelley,
Thomas Degine aud Patrick Lyons of
Chelsea, were arraigned before the trial
justice charged with intoxicstion and were
all committed to the Augusta Jail for 80 days
each
The people of Skowhegan will be some
what surprised when they read that the
robbers who attacked Mr. Barron on Wash
ington's birthday, 1873, first saw the an
nounCement of the tragedy the next morning
in the Daily Telegram published in that
town.
Albert holland of Chelsea was arraigned
before Judge Stevens of TIsllowell Tuesday
for assault with intent to kill on Alonzo P.
Gardner also of Chelsea. He was ordered
to furnish sureties in the sum of $500 to keep
the peace for six months, which order he
complied with. Hts
large rumor is going the rounds of the
State that yesterdays Journal contained the
longest and best account of the Dexter Bank
mater which has since appeared in State
paper, 1t was a considerably longer report
than was given by any other paper in Maine,
and carried the matter through special dis
patches clear up t, the latest movement.
The breezy local man of the Waterville
Sentinel tells how crowds of young people
have lately been seen to be going in one par
tcular direction and that is to the cider mill (,